{"id":39206,"date":"2026-09-21T20:23:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wiki\/?page_id=39206"},"modified":"2026-09-21T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:23:46","slug":"concurrent-users-vs-total-users-explained","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wiki\/video-tutorials\/load-testing\/concurrent-users-vs-total-users-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Concurrent Users vs. Total Users Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many concurrent users do you need to load test your website?<\/p>\n<p>Total Users (aka Total Sessions count) metric is commonly used in performance testing to answer this question. However, it is not as straightforward as it may appear.<\/p>\n<p>Learn the difference between Total Users and Concurrent Users from this short video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Concurrent Users vs. Total Users Explained\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n9LNFztgniQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many concurrent users do you need to load test your website? Total Users (aka Total Sessions count) metric is commonly used in performance testing to answer this question. However, it is not as straightforward as it may appear. Learn the difference between Total Users and Concurrent Users from this short video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":35317,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39206\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}